Welcome to the online portfolio of Andrew Buckman. I've been involved in computers since the age of 8. I taught myself BASIC from the manual included with my computer back in the days of MS-DOS 3.30 and GW-BASIC. Eventually I moved to Visual Basic and unleashed my first program while in high school after brainstorming with a friend. By my sophomore year of college I had grown tired of Windows programming and elected to major in business with an emphasis on finance. While I created my first website back in 1996 on GeoCities, it wasn't until 2000 upon discovering the beauty of CSS combined with the power of PHP / MySQL that I truly found myself hooked on developing for the web. Throughout the years, I have developed a variety of personal projects for the web, started a handful of businesses, and even dabbled in photography a bit.
I spent three years with a local internet marketing firm, Envano, as the Web Designer/Developer. During this time I had the opportunity to consistently refine designs while building out projects for the web, develop a staging-to-live file transfer utility for clients to utilize with automated backups, integrate google maps into a variety of sites in a distributor locator capacity, and utilize a Google Mini search appliance for site searches. With the release of the mootools JavaScript library in 2006, my interest in front-end development and the user experience grew tremendously.
In February of 2008, I was contracted for a two-month position to rewrite the Web Development Concepts exam for the online testing company, Brainbench.com. Upon completion of my contract, I was awarded the distinction of Content Subject Matter Expert in recognition of my expertise in the field.
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Andrew Buckman
andrewbuckman@theoneandtheonly.com
